Re: ALSA not working properly
On Wednesday 15 October 2008 16:41, Samuel Bächler wrote:
> Dear All
>
> I have an etch installed on a lenovo T60. Most of the times simply clicking
> on a mp3-file in konqueror [1] will start playing that specific file.
> But, sometimes
> it does not.
> There are three sound-bottoms on my keyboard: mute, volume-up and
> volume-down.
> In my opinion the sound problems occur whenever I boot the laptop when the
> mute-bottom was pressed the last time I used the laptop. On the other
> hand sound
> seems to work fine whenever the volume-up-bottom was pressed at least
> once the
> last time I used the laptop.
>
> Any hints?
> Cheers
>
> Sam
Hi Sam. I already have Sarge, Etch, and Lenny on another machine, using an
Audigy2 soundblaster soundcard, and no problems there, but have recently
built a new machine that uses an onboard hda intel soundcard. I've already
installed various distros on this machine, and got the sounds working.
I installed Etch on this machine, but had no sounds at all. Clearly the alsa
driver 1.0.12rc1 didn't know anything about the hda intel card on my mobo.
Before I ramble on, could you open alsamixer on the CLI, and confirm that the
chipset is AD1981.
Looking at model options for AD1981 with alsa driver 1.0.15, I see the
following.
AD1981
basic 3-jack (default)
hp HP nx6320
thinkpad Lenovo Thinkpad T60/X60/Z60
toshiba Toshiba U205
These options are unlikely to work with the 1.0.12rc1, but your welcome to try
the one for the thinkpad.
Su to root on the CLI,Konsole, or Terminal. Navigate
to /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base, and at the bottom of the alsa-base file add the
following line.
options snd-hda-intel model=thinkpad
Save the changes, and reboot.
I suggested the option above from the alsa driver 1.0.15, so this may not
change anything for you, and you may have to upgrade the alsa driver, but
lets see how this goes.
Nigel.
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